What are your DSL speeds?

[pelleplu]

I was wondering at what speeds your dsl connections are running, and at what price?
There is some kind of DSL war going on here in Sweden right now between two of the operators. For a couple of years my current provides has been the fastest one with 2.5 Mbps downstream and 768Kbps upstream for about $55/month. But last week the other providers suddenly offers a 10Mbps down/9Mbps upstream solution for 50$/week. And as if that wasn't fast enough, today the ISP I have has released a 26Mbps in both directions DSL for the same price, $50/month. I'd say thats a pretty good speed/price ratio.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

sure wish those prices were like that in the states.(are those in U.S. dollars?)

1.5mb down-128kb up is 34.95/mo. with SBC Global, Verizon has 768 down-128up for the same price.
1.5mb down-256kb up is 49.95/mo. " ", Verizon 1.5down-128up is same price

 

[pelleplu]

Yes that's USD..

ouch.. those upstreams can't be good when gaming?? Mad prices for that speed. Whats your avg. latency when playing? (if you play any games) Mine's usually around 20ms

 

[lobadobadingdong]

us servers range between 49ms to 200ms, usually stable around 90-100ms on most servers.

and I play games.....{ATF} BF1942 Clan Member.

 

[Soybomb]

ouch.. those upstreams can't be good when gaming?? Mad prices for that speed. Whats your avg. latency when playing? (if you play any games) Mine's usually around 20ms

It depends a ton of where the game server is of course. From my home which is about 15 miles away from the ISP's POP I get about 30ms to a server in the ISP's building. Thats roughly from my house to my city's CO, to the other town's CO via whatever the telco is using, and then to the ISP's office over fiber, and then in the building, through 2 switches and to the box.

With taxes I pay Verizon 45.88 a month for a 786/128 dsl circuit. If I didn't work for the ISP I would pay about another $35 for service on that circuit.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I don't know why it's such a premium here, it's not like I don't live less than 1 mile from masses of Fibre(gotta be several 100 gigabit multimode fibre trunks on those) going from Dallas to Tulsa.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: pelleplu
I was wondering at what speeds your dsl connections are running, and at what price?
There is some kind of DSL war going on here in Sweden right now between two of the operators. For a couple of years my current provides has been the fastest one with 2.5 Mbps downstream and 768Kbps upstream for about $55/month. But last week the other providers suddenly offers a 10Mbps down/9Mbps upstream solution for 50$/week. And as if that wasn't fast enough, today the ISP I have has released a 26Mbps in both directions DSL for the same price, $50/month. I'd say thats a pretty good speed/price ratio.

Unless the ISP's there have upgraded to VDSL, the Modems and DSLAMs top out at 8 meg. The original spec called for 6 meg down.

VDSL is 20 Meg.

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Might be a premium because iirc, Europe is a little bit quicker to integrate all that high technology stuff than the states are. Their cell phone networks are better, so I'm assuming their broadband/integration is a little bit better than ours. (They might have had it earlier than us)

 

[dbwillis]

SBC/Snet DSL

up 980 kbps
down 108 kbps

 

[pelleplu]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: pelleplu
I was wondering at what speeds your dsl connections are running, and at what price?
There is some kind of DSL war going on here in Sweden right now between two of the operators. For a couple of years my current provides has been the fastest one with 2.5 Mbps downstream and 768Kbps upstream for about $55/month. But last week the other providers suddenly offers a 10Mbps down/9Mbps upstream solution for 50$/week. And as if that wasn't fast enough, today the ISP I have has released a 26Mbps in both directions DSL for the same price, $50/month. I'd say thats a pretty good speed/price ratio.

Unless the ISP's there have upgraded to VDSL, the Modems and DSLAMs top out at 8 meg. The original spec called for 6 meg down.

VDSL is 20 Meg.

yeah the 10Mbps and 26Mbps connection are using VDSL technology Soon there will be Internet through the electric outlets too, they have been testing that for a while. Not sure how fast that's gonna be though.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: dbwillis
SBC/Snet DSL

up 980 kbps
down 108 kbps

So many people post it backwards. Although it is possible to configure the Modem for higher upload symetry than download it is normally set up for highest download speed.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: pelleplu

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: pelleplu
I was wondering at what speeds your dsl connections are running, and at what price?
There is some kind of DSL war going on here in Sweden right now between two of the operators. For a couple of years my current provides has been the fastest one with 2.5 Mbps downstream and 768Kbps upstream for about $55/month. But last week the other providers suddenly offers a 10Mbps down/9Mbps upstream solution for 50$/week. And as if that wasn't fast enough, today the ISP I have has released a 26Mbps in both directions DSL for the same price, $50/month. I'd say thats a pretty good speed/price ratio.

Unless the ISP's there have upgraded to VDSL, the Modems and DSLAMs top out at 8 meg. The original spec called for 6 meg down.

VDSL is 20 Meg.

yeah the 10Mbps and 26Mbps connection are using VDSL technology Soon there will be Internet through the electric outlets too, they have been testing that for a while. Not sure how fast that's gonna be though.

Thought so. I wasn't aware that some ISP's have migrated to VDSL in Europe already.

Not likely to see any VDSL in the U.S. anytime in the near future especially since Politics and Greed has prevented any serious ordinary DSL rollout Country wide.

Edit: BTW 1.5mb down-256kb up is 49.95/mo. BellSouth (Telephone Company that controls the Southeast U.S.) and I get the full speed using my own DSL Modem (a Zoom X4) not one pushed on me by the Telephone Company.

 

[dbwillis]

Ooops, sorry!

 

[Doh!]

VDSL is only $35/mo in S. Korea which costs the same as a regular ADSL (8mb/1mb). It's only available in metropolitan areas though. All broadband connections costs are regulated by the government which benefits the consumers. And the competition among ISPs is very fierce as S. Korea is a very small country. Definitely no monopoly by a single phone company.